[2025-04-25] The Key to Navigating Change With Confidence

Speaker : Kristy Ellmer

It is the human nature that people feel uncomfortable wtih change. When people confront change their brain releases stress hormones. For example, when people meet a bear in the woods their brain tells them to run which is not a good solution. People have to realize staying still is a better option. However, most people will follow the first option because it's human nature. This is the same to changes. People have to overcome their fear.

 

In this TED speech, Kristy Ellmer speaks about ways to navigate change with confidence. She says there are five primary motivators to why people are motivated to change.

1. Personal achievement
2. Customers
3. Teams
4. Community
5. Financial Outcomes

She also found almost the same percentage of each element were the same, so about 20% each. If a CEO of a company annouces there will be a big change and if we overcome this change the company will grow. People will get promoted and the stock price will rise. In this case the CEO is only motivating people with two primary motivators group, personal achievement(being promoted) and financial outcomes(stock price rising). If there were 100 people listening to the speech, the CEO is only motivating 40 people.

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Opinion

나는 위의 5가지 motivators 중에 5번 financial outcomes가 나에게 가장 많은 동기부여를 주는 것 같다. 개인적으론 1번과 5번은 묶어서 생각해도 괜찮을 것 같다.(물론 5가지 모두 서로에게 영향을 주긴하지만) 능력이 정말 뛰어나지만 왜 더 좋은 회사로 이직하거나 돈을 더 많이 벌 수 있는 직업을 택하지 않을까 의문이 항상 있었지만 스피치를 들어보니 인간의 본성이 변화를 거절하는 것이었다. 나를 동기부여 시키는 것을 잘 생각하며 앞으로 내 목표를 향해 더욱 거 열심히 달려나가야겠다.